scoggins



s. n. scoecINs, on BALTIMORE; MARYLAND.

Letters Patent No. 93,128, dated J'fuly 27, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN REFRIGERA'TORS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, S. B. ScoGGINs, of the city and county of Baltimore,and State of Maryland, have invented a new and improved Refrigerator;and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the construction and operation of the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of thisspecication, in which my invention is represented by-a perspective view,two ot' the side walls having been removed, to exhibit the constructionof the interior. y

The object of this invention is to provide for public use a simple,cheap, and convenient refrigerator, which shall be properly'ventilated,and shall be capable of keeping food, Sec., nearly at thefreezing-point.

In the drawings- A A are the side walls, A1, the bottom, and A2, the topof the refrigerator, all constructed of wood', and B is a metallic box,resting within it on the bottom A, and provided with a ventilator-pipe,C, at its top,

and a series of small holes, e ce, around its lower edge, arranged asshown in the drawing.

A door, D, opensthrongh one of the walls of the outer box A into thespace between A and B, and another door opens through another wall intothe enclosed box B, the latter sitting in contact. with that side of theenclosing-box.

The top Az is provided with a hinged cover, F.

v The icc is placed around the inner box B, both at its sides and overits top, if need be.

The bottom A1 may be corrugated, or provided with channels, to receiveand hold, or carry awaythe water Acaused by the melting of the ice.

The walls A A may be made 0f any required thick# ness, the severalthicknesses'being arranged either in contact or with an air-spacebetween them, at option.

In very llarge refrigerators, or ice-houses, the ice may be introducedthrough the door D, and in small ones through the lid F, if preferred.

The food, or other article to be kept cool, is placed in the box B,through the door shown in dotted lines on the right-hand side in thedrawing.

The cold air from among the blocks of ice enters, through vthe holes ee, into the box B, and surrounds the food, 8vo., rising and escapingthrough the pipe C, Y

whenever its temperature begins lto rise.

At the same time the body of air within box B is cooled on vevery sideby the metal walls,wl1ich readily conduct the cold from thesurrounding'ice.

I claim a refrigerator, constructed substantially as y above described,that is to say, having the wooden enclosing-box A A1 A2, the enclosedmetallic box B, perforated at e e e, the vertical pipe O, the door D,the lid F, and the door opening through thewall A into box B, allconstructed and combined substantially as and for the purposes hereinset forth. l

S. B. SCOGGINS., Witnesses:

JOHN S. STREETS, FRANCIS KING.

